§ Mr. Fowlerasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many people teaching full-time in universities have served on selection boards for the administrative grade of the Home Civil Service in each 272W of the last 10 years; and how many of these were teaching at Oxford and Cambridge, at London, and at other universities respectively.
§ Mr. MacDermotThe Civil Service Commission has supplied the following information about the numbers of university staffs who have served on the Final Selection Boards or Final Interview Boards for candidates for assistant principal and principal posts in the Administrative Class of the Home Civil Service from 1956 to 1965:
University Year Total Oxford and Cambridge London Others 1956 32 18 3 11 1957 34 22 3 9 1958 35 22 4 9 1959 34 24 4 6 1960 34 20 5 9 1961 38 24 4 10 1962 35 21 6 8 1963 28 15 4 9 1964 31 16 6 9 1965 75 33 8 34 In addition members of university teaching staffs serve on the Civil Service Selection Board which conducts tests, exercises and interviews on the results of which candidates competing for the Administrative Class by Method II are selected to attend the Final Board. The figures are as follows:
University Year Total university teaching staff serving on C.S.S.B. Oxford and Cambridge London Others 1956 2 — — 2 1957 2 — — 2 1958 2 — — 2 1959 3 — — 3 1960 3 — — 3 1961 3 — — 3 1962 4 — — 4 1963 5 1 — 4 1964 7 1 1 5 1965 10 1 1 8